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Status: Single
City: Liverpool
Country: UK
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009 
DVD REVIEW
Columbo Season 10: Volume 1 - The godfather of cop shows returns, the cigar chomping tec in the mac is back nineties style.

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_dvd.php?id=5595


LIVE REVIEWS: http://www.subba-cultcha.com/live.php
Writing On The Wall Festival (Billy Bragg / Attila the Stockbroker) @ The Picket, Liverpool - WoW Festival sees Mr Love and Justice and punk poets keep faith in Liverpool

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_live.php?id=5644

Sing it Loud - Come Around - Blink 182 too edgy for you? These Vanilla pop-punksters come from Minneapolis - whatever.

ALBUM REVIEWS

Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca - Yale graduates produce a'cappella, experimental indie for your delectation. Think Vampire Weekend meets Buckley via Byrne.

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_album.php?id=9713

Dinosaur Jr. – Farm - Dinosaur Jr return from extinction; album number 9 from Mascis and Co.

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_album.php?id=9714

Sing it Loud - Come Around - Blink 182 too edgy for you? These Vanilla pop-punksters come from Minneapolis - whatever.

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_album.php?id=9745
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 
Live reviews
Doves @ Academy 1, Manchester - Musical royalty are out in force to see what it sounds like when Doves cry in Manchester
http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_live.php?id=5640

Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard  @ Barfly, Liverpool - New York Anti Folkster brings his low budget short films and comedic observations to Liverpool
 
DVD Review
30 Rock: Season 2 - Second series of award winning US sitcom rocks *DVD OF THE WEEK*
Defiance - The Holocaust from another angle – the story of the ghosts of the woods
http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_dvd.php?id=5565
Album reviews
 
Passion Pit – Manners - Joyous summery electro intelli-pop from Massachusetts’ hot new things.
Patrick Watson - Wooden Arms - Juno nominated artist mixes ethereal melodies and contorted folk and draws comparison to a Canadian Radiohead
Scott Matthews - Elsewhere - Woverhampton’s Troubadour returns with sophomore album. Downbeat and drive time but still haunted by the ghost of Jeff Buckley.
http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_album.php?id=9567
 
V/A - Kitsune Maison Compilation 7 - Strike it lucky with a collection of summer tunes fit to grace Parisian walkways
 
Crosby, Stills & Nash – Demos - Folk rock super group bring the spirit of laurel canyon back to life
 
Cass McCombs – Catacombs - The fourth instalment of shuffling poetry from the mysterious lo-fi nomad
 
Friday, May 01, 2009 
LIVE Reviews

Animal Collective @ O2 Academy, Liverpool - Panda Bear and his friendly animals rock Liverpool with their experimental noise

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_live.php?id=5607

Leisure Society @ St Brides Church, Liverpool - A Burton band stretch their enormous wings in a Liverpool Church

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_live.php?id=5612

ALBUM Review

St Vincent – Actor - An animatronic technicolour ride from Polyphonic Spree songstress


http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_album.php?id=9438

Currently reading:
Catch-22
By Joseph Heller
Friday, May 01, 2009 
DVD Review

Petulia - San Francisco based psychedelic sixties film from the Director of Help

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_dvd.php?id=5544

Album Review

Men Without Pants – Rock electro funk: The Mooney Suzuki, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs & Sean Lennon lend a hand

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_album.php?id=9404
Currently listening:
The Hazards of Love
By The Decemberists
Release date: 2009-03-23
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 
FEATURE

The Bookhouse Boys - Subba talks to the exponents of Cowboy Noir about Twin Peaks, Pulp Fiction and Leonard Cohen

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article.feature.php?id=5938
ALBUM Reviews

Blue Roses - Blue Roses - Inspired by Bartok, Bush, Debussy and Du Maurier, recorded in living rooms, bedrooms and bathrooms.Ethereal loveliness from the North

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article.album.php?id=9318

Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle - Smog man returns with a honky tonk record. Album of the year ruined.
http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article.album.php?id=9320
Currently listening:
Leaders Of The Free World
By Elbow
Release date: 2006-07-01
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 
DVD Reviews

Kaleidoscope - A lightweight sixties rom-com and adventure tale for fans of James Bond

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article.dvd.php?id=5536

LIVE Review

Liam Frost @ Ruby lounge, Manchester - ‘Love is the only certainty and it’s here in front of you.’ Garvey’s successor gives us his springtime shakedown.

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article.live.php?id=5598

ALBUM Reviews

The Thermals - Now We Can See - Portland Post-Punksters discover a fourth chord.

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article.album.php?id=9354

Jeniferever - Spring Tides - Like The Cure in a Snowstorm; Shoegazing soundscapes from Sweden’s answer to Sigor Ros.

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article.album.php?id=9358

Golden Silvers - True Romance - Glasto winners do fluffy pop; great single, shame about the album

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article.album.php?id=9366

Sons of Noel & Adrian - Sons of Noel & Adrian - Wild, ethereal sea shanties from alt-folk collective

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article.album.php?id=9368
Sneaky Sound System - Sneaky Sound System - Sydney dance combo sound like Hazel Dean meets Ladyhawke.
http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article.album.php?id=9382

Lloyd Cole - Cleaning Out The Ashtrays - Are you ready to be heartbroken? Rarities, b-sides and covers from seminal eighties songwriter

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article.album.php?id=9384 


 
Currently reading:
Catch-22
By Joseph Heller
Sunday, March 29, 2009 
DVD REVIEW
Columbo: Series 9 - 'Just one more thing?' - nineties revival of classic detective show

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_dvd.php?id=5526
ALBUM REVIEWS

Siouxsie and the Banshees - Nocturne/Tinderbox/A Kiss In The Dreamhouse/Hyaena (extended remasters) - Now she’s in purple now she’s a turtle; four gothic classics get re-mastered.

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_album.php?id=9292

The Veils – Sungangs - A modern mix of prayers, love letters and record keeping from Nick Cave devotees

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_album.php?id=9266
King Of Spain - Battleships & Aeroplanes - These Castillian royals come from Balham and sound like the Libertines meets Half Man Half Biscuit

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_album.php?id=9272
Still Flyin - Never gonna touch the ground – San Francisco’s fifteen -piece super group jump onto the party bus. Like the Go! Team do Rock Steady.

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_album.php?id=9278
Joe Gideon and The Shark - Harum Scarum - Psychedelic blues rock like The Cramps jamming with Nick Cave and The Fall

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_album.php?id=9281

Lady of the Sunshine - Smoking Gun - Angus returns minus his sister with an album recorded in an old water tank

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_album.php?id=9303

Lau - Arc Light - Folk award winners make Celtic connections

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_album.php?id=9283

The Respectables - Sibley Gardens - American power poppers deliver dull Detroit rock

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_album.php?id=9308
Currently watching:
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid [DVD] [1969]
Release date: 2001-08-27
Sunday, March 29, 2009 
FEATURES
Leisure Society - Subba talks to The Leisure Society, Hemming with Hardy - a band from Burton reborn in a London bed.
http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_feature.php?id=5917

Of Time And The City Interview - Subba talks to its producer Roy Boulter about language, music, City of Culture and meeting Mickey Rourke

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_feature.php?id=5920
Currently reading:
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
By William Blake
Sunday, March 29, 2009 
FILM REVIEW

Defiance - Ghosts of the Woods - The story of the Bielski Partisans

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_dvd.php?id=5503

ALBUM REVIEW

J J Cale - Roll On - Influential septuagenarian Tulsa sound bluesman shows the kids a thing or two

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_album.php?id=9144

Currently reading:
Revolutionary Road
By Richard Yates
Monday, March 16, 2009 
The Leisure Society - The Sleeper - A wistful little gem from a Burton band reborn in a London bed

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_album.php?id=9174
Radiohead - Pablo Honey/The Bends/Ok Computer (Collector’s Edition) - This is what you get when you mess with them.A re-released trilogy of classics from one of Britain’s most significant bands

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_album.php?id=9182

1990S – Kicks - Pollokshields power punk pop like The Ramones the Scream.Songs to fill the dance floor but not your heart

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_album.php?id=9200

Ike and Tina Turner - The Archive Series, Volume 5 - Pushin/Volume 6 - Rollin - Acid Queen and hubby with another compendium of American Rock and Soul

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_album.php?id=9210
Currently reading:
Adventure on the High Teas: In Search of Middle England
By Stuart Maconie
Monday, March 02, 2009 
The Bird And The Bee – Subba chats about the birds and the bees with LA’s electro pop duo

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_feature.php?id=5891

film

Milk - Never Blend In - Oscar nominated biopic of The Mayor of Castro Street

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_dvd.php?id=5491

albums

Elvis Perkins - Elvis Perkins in Dearland - Bi-coastal and bi-polar alt-folkster produces an album for life not just for Christmas *ALBUM OF THE WEEK*

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_album.php?id=9110

Arbouretum - Song of the Pearl - Pearls of wisdom from Baltimore’s grunge folk rockers

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_album.php?id=9116
Dollboy - A Beard Of Bees - Former big beatster produces folktronica to enjoy privately in the bath at home.
http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_album.php?id=9128

Julie Doiron - I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day - Broken girl took a trip with Eric and now finds that home is where the heart is

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_album.php?id=9118
Monday, March 02, 2009 
ALBUMS
Who Made Who - The Plot - For fans of electro, Probably the best thing to come out of Denmark since Carlsberg
http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_album.php?id=9073

Ghosts On Pegasus Bridge - The Darkest Shore - Much ado about nothing from the south coast Epic core players

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_album.php?id=9101

Slashed Seat Affair – Noises - Eurovision fodder from Johnny Rotten’s cousin

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_album.php?id=9105
Saturday, February 21, 2009 
New Rhodes - Everybody Loves A Scene - Anthemic and derivative indie rock. They make a big fuss but say little.
http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_album.php?id=9041

The Fray - The Fray - Network drama-tastic; more faux melancholia for the OC Generation

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_album.php?id=9043

Matt Emery - Elysian Fields - Atmospheric mood piece like Sigor Ros scoring The Piano

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_album.php?id=9051


Novillero - A Little Tradition - Winnipeg’s answer to The Small Faces

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_album.php?id=9055

Elusive Parallelograms - And Everything Changes - Think Brian Jonestown Massacre jamming with Dinosaur Junior, then think again

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_album.php?id=9031
Currently listening:
Antics
By Interpol
Release date: 2004-09-27
Thursday, February 12, 2009 
Bruce Springsteen - Working On A Dream - Some things hurt more much more than cars and girls. The Boss is back with more heartland rock.Do we care?

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_album.php?id=9002

Aidan Moffat & The Best Ofs - How To Get To Heaven From Scotland - More post folk musings from the boy with the arab strap

http://www.subba-cultcha. om/article_album.php?id=9006
The New Standards - Rock And Roll - Hey Ya, jazzy pub singers cover the old standards surprisingly well.
http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_album.php?id=9028

WHO WE INTERVIEWED LAST YEAR:
http://www.subba-cultcha.com/top-features.php
SUBBA’S END OF THE YEAR POLL – ALSO HAVE YOUR OWN SAY:
http://www.subba-cultcha.com/top-subba.php



Currently listening:
Caught in the Trees
By Damien Jurado
Release date: 2008-10-27
Monday, February 02, 2009 
FILM/DVD REVIEWS

Unforgiven - Compelling three-part drama about life after prison starring ex corrie actress

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_dvd.php?id=5465
The Accidental Husband - The Love Doctor gets payback.An average rom-com made enjoyable by a heavyweight cast

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_dvd.php?id=5469
ALBUM/EP REVIEWS

J Tillman - Vacilando Territory Blues - Poignant prose and sparse acoustics from Fleet Foxes sticksman

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_album.php?id=8972

Wave Machines - Wave Machines EP - A little sampler of what is to come from Liverpool’s new darlings.They wear masks and play in churches you know!

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_album.php?id=8974

The Bird and The Bee - Ray Guns Are Just The Future - LA Duo produce sweet dream pop with a drum machine and electric piano. It’s like an indie musical.

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_album.php?id=8976

Andrew Bird - Noble Beast - Fourteen pieces of mercurial instrumentalism from a mate of Lambchop and Wilco

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_album.php?id=8979

Dropkick – Patchwork - Scots premier alt country balladeers return to their roots

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_album.php?id=8987

Candi Staton - Who’s Hurting Now - Let young hearts run free, the Southern soul diva is back

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_album.php?id=8981

Circlesquare - Songs about dancing and drugs - Dull distorted dubs from Berlin by way of Vancouver; the drugs would have to be good!

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_album.php?id=8997

Currently listening:
Ash Wednesday
By Elvis Perkins
Release date: 2007-07-09